Quotes for December 2047 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 20: the anniversary does not move.

• A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  3.2 · 59 votes · 72 reads

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• A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

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  Leonard Cohen

  WriterCanadian1934 · 20th century

  3.5 · 41 votes · 23 reads

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• Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.4 · 25 votes · 82 reads

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• As women politicians, we talk about the most difficult themes of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, 'How do you make it work with your husband?' The interesting thing is that these women - most of them - don't lose the per

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.2 · 21 votes · 109 reads

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• But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.0 · 30 votes · 28 reads

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• Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.8 · 29 votes · 17 reads

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• Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 28 votes · 194 reads

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• Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.9 · 40 votes · 176 reads

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• Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.7 · 19 votes · 41 reads

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• Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.7 · 18 votes · 39 reads

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• For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.5 · 58 votes · 95 reads

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• Giving is the business of the rich.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 20 reads

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• God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.9 · 20 votes · 8 reads

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• Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.8 · 63 votes · 179 reads

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• He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  5.0 · 21 votes · 160 reads

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• He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  4.2 · 27 votes · 67 reads

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• He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.5 · 48 votes · 139 reads

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• He who is not impatient is not in love.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  4.9 · 64 votes · 78 reads

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• I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.0 · 12 votes · 193 reads

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• I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 83 reads

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• If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.1 · 43 votes · 143 reads

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• It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.6 · 43 votes · 127 reads

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• It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.5 · 6 votes · 161 reads

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• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.8 · 57 votes · 98 reads

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• Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 45 votes · 183 reads

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• Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 30 votes · 5 reads

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• No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  5.0 · 11 votes · 46 reads

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• Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.2 · 56 votes · 151 reads

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• On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.3 · 27 votes · 137 reads

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• One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.

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  Shimon Peres

  PoliticianIsraeli1923 · 20th century

  4.3 · 37 votes · 157 reads

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• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.2 · 23 votes · 81 reads

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• Our first and last love is... self-love. - Bovee, Christian Nevell

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 99 reads

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• Sloth is the key to poverty.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.5 · 51 votes · 187 reads

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• Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 15 votes · 71 reads

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• Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

  

  English proverb

  English

  4.0 · 41 votes · 103 reads

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• To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.6 · 44 votes · 179 reads

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• We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.4 · 40 votes · 39 reads

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• We do not invest in advertising... So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari.

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  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

  3.1 · 38 votes · 47 reads

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• We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.3 · 24 votes · 13 reads

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• Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.8 · 55 votes · 141 reads

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• What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 51 votes · 6 reads

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• When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 123 reads

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• Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.5 · 12 votes · 50 reads

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• Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.1 · 16 votes · 166 reads

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• You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.3 · 55 votes · 189 reads

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• You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.9 · 19 votes · 183 reads

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